Director of Research, Sydney Children's Hospital Network, and Paediatric Endocrinologist, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Professor Chris Cowell is a Conjoint Professor of the University of Sydney; staff specialist in paediatric endocrinology; and was Head of the Institute of Endocrinology and Diabetes from 2003-2010. He co-led the development of the Paediatric Trials Network Australia (PTNA).

Professor Cowell has >160 peer reviewed papers. For the past 5 years, he has been cited >300 times annually. He has designed and conducted randomised controlled trials (RCT’s) and an NHMRC part funded birth cohort study and is a Co-CI on a NHMRC funded longitudinal follow up study.